LUCAS Explains #9: Why do French people have to know 350 year old poems by heart written for a king?

In the video series “LUCAS Explains”, young researchers tell about current societal and cultural topics from a historical or fresh point of view. The subjects range from diversity to national identity and from inclusiveness to migration. The videos stretch the history from the Classics to the present and from Europe to Asia. “LUCAS Explains” is published every other Tuesday. “LUCAS Explains” is a video series of Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society and SOON media Amsterdam.

You were watching PhD Candidate Céline Zaepffel. Want to know more about “LUCAS Explains” and the Leiden Arts in Society Blog? Visit https://leidenartsinsocietyblog.nl/

THANKS TO:
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Leiden University
Livia Hirsch

CREDIT PICTURES:
Le Prix de Sagesse ou La Fontaine en Jeu, Paris, Demonville, 1810. Source : The British Museum
Isabel Young, Les Fables de La Fontaine : les animaux, Épinal, Imagerie d’Épinal, 2009.
Alfred Theulot and Benjamin Rabier, Dites-nous votre fable, Paris, Boivin, ca. 1910.
Jean de La Fontaine and Benjamin Rabier, Fables de La Fontaine, Paris, Jules Tallandier, 1982.
Jean Ballesdens, Les fables d’Escope Phrygien, facsimile (1645), Reims, Éditions et presses universitaires de Reims, 2011.
Philippe Mignon, Fables de La Fontaine, Paris, Nathan, 2007.
Various authors, La Fontaine aux fables, Paris, Delcourt, 2010.

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